In Spanish co-operatives, 49% of the workers are women, which is 12% higher than any other types of enterprise. The percentage of senior positions held by women is 39%, compared with 6% in other types of organisations.
We now know that we cannot possibly succeed in our goal to transform the food system without the active, deep and committed participation of citizen consumers. An authentic Fair Trade system requires democratic organizing of producers in the South, worker democracy for businesses in the North, and active citizen involvement in the North.
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Registration is now live for the Vermont Employee Ownership Conference to be held on Thursday, June 2, 2016 from from 7:30 am to 5:00 pm.
With share offers becoming an increasingly common part of the fundraising mix, Community Shares guru Dave Boyle is teaming up with us for a free webinar giving you all the information you need on why it would work for your project!
Join Crowdfunder and The Community Shares Company to discuss the key issues that surround community share issues.
Environmental efforts which neglect the role of capitalism will not succeed in achieving sustainability. This is a complex topic, so I’ll do my best to present a simplified overview.
One can conceptualize sustainability as a three-legged stool composed of three E’s: Environment, Economy, and Equality. Take away or otherwise neglect one of the legs and the entire stool falls to the floor.
“What is more telling is not just the number of cooperatives, but how many people do business with cooperatives,” he said.
That number isn’t clear, but according to Bergeron, 54 percent of Vermonters work with credit unions. It’s likely, he said, that percentage increases when taking into consideration cooperatives in every sector.
"The only stakeholder invested enough to take over these businesses are the workers who depend on them for a livelihood, and the communities who depend on them for the benefit they have," he says. "Either these businesses close and we get sudden great unemployment, or we take an opportunity for wealth distribution and demographic inclusiveness."
Hope is being privatized.
The “Sharing Economy” is comprised of corporations like Uber and Airbnb—that don’t actually do much sharing.
This year’s Living the New Economy Oakland Convergence to be held at Mills College, October 21-23 will shine the light on what’s working, what’s not, and what more we can do to build the inclusive, vibrant Oakland of our dreams.
If you’re like me, you’re probably growing frustrated hearing the lofty promises of this campaign season, everything from taking on the establishment and revolution to the other end of the dial about embracing a stagnant status quo. What if we didn’t need to wait every fourth November to learn which Presidential candidate’s policies will be shaping our lives?
Superpublic is the first space ever entirely devoted to innovation in the public sector.
On a Saturday evening a few weekends ago, several artists, performers, activists, and writers gathered at an apartment in Chelsea to discuss their relationship to the city-wide process of gentrification.
Since I came to